Browsing HEC Books by Type "Book"

Title:The Habsburg Empire : a new history
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Author(s):JUDSON, Pieter M.Date:2016Citation:Cambridge : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016Type:BookAbstract:In a panoramic and pioneering reappraisal, Pieter Judson shows why the Habsburg Empire mattered so much, for so long, to millions of Central Europeans. Across divides of language, religion, region, and history, ordinary ...

Title:The Stuart restoration and the English in Ireland
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Author(s):MCCORMACK, DanielleDate:2016Citation:Woodbridge ; Rochester : Boydell Press, 2016, Irish Historical Monograph SeriesVersion:Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2013Type:BookAbstract:This book focuses on how historical memory and political discourse affected land settlement and political processes in early Restoration Ireland. The period 1660-1667 was one of insecurity for the Protestant plantation in ...

Title:The EEC's Yugoslav policy in Cold War Europe, 1968-1980
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Author(s):ZACCARIA, BenedettoDate:2016Citation:London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, Security, conflict and cooperation in the contemporary worldType:BookAbstract:The disintegration of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s is often described as the starting-point of the EEC/EU involvement in Western Balkan politics, as if no political relations had developed between the EEC and Yugoslavia ...

Title:Invocations of Europe : music theatre and the Romanian principalities, 1775-1852
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Author(s):CISMAŞ, SabinaDate:2016Citation:Wien : Böhlau Verlag, 2016, Musikkulturen europäischer Metropolen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, v. 13Version:Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2014Type:BookAbstract:Hitherto the western historiography of music and opera has devoted very little attention to Romania. This book seeks to address this gap, examining how music theatre was instrumentalised as a vehicle for the overall ...

Title:Founding Weimar : violence and the German revolution of 1918–1919
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Author(s):JONES, Mark WilliamDate:2016Citation:Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016Version:Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2011Type:BookAbstract:The German Revolution of 1918–1919 was a transformative moment in modern European history. It was both the end of the German Empire and the First World War, as well as the birth of the Weimar Republic, the short-lived ...

Title:Histories of Egyptology : interdisciplinary measures
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Editor(s):CARRUTHERS, WilliamDate:2015Citation:New York ; Abingdon : Routledge, 2015, Routledge Studies in Egyptology, 2Type:BookAbstract:Histories of Egyptology are increasingly of interest: to Egyptologists, archaeologists, historians, and others. Yet, particularly as Egypt undergoes a contested process of political redefinition, how do we write these ...

Title:Singing on the river : Sichuan boatmen and their work songs, 1880s-1930s
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Author(s):CHABROWSKI, Igor IwoDate:2015Citation:Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2015, China studies, Vol. 32Version:Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2013Type:BookAbstract:Singing on the River by Igor Chabrowski, based on Sichuan boatmen’s work songs (haozi), explores the little known world of mentality and self-representation of Chinese workers from the late 19th century until the outbreak ...